not your pup

Still remember Kecil's new friend? We are still not progressing beyond observing signs of habitation in the house, so... unfortunately the friendship had not progressed beyond fascination from across the fence either.
It's a pity, since Kecil is absolutely fascinated by the playful puppy, and the puppy so obviously wanted to play with this little babe of mine.

I am still very glad, though, because Kecil does have a measure of confidence with dogs in general, no doubt thanks to early socialization with Penny, our puny Golden Retriever, also sometimes referred to as Mama's and Daddy's 'other' offspring.

You can see her started very young with our neighbor's dog, Macho:

Not long ago, she also went along with Penny's suitor:

That is NOT to say that she would just approach any dog with impunity.
She's still wary against unknown dogs, which I think is good. It certainly will do for her to go off running towards any Asu, Doggie and Bruno without first getting Mama's approval.
Still... I do hope Kecil will grow up fully appreciative of the value of Man's best friend friendship.

Here's to all dog-lovers out there!

after Skool....

... is time to claim her crown, her throne and... her banana snack.

Isn't it nice to chill, a banana-on-a-stick on hand, watching the TV after a hard day in Skool?

You might wonder about the choice of seat.
It does make some nice pictures with the wall as a nice, diffuse background.
But knowing Mama's opportunist style in taking pictures, there has to be more story behind the 'throne'

Indeed.

Any clues yet? No?

And THAT, my dears, is the story, all four-legged furriness, waiting for a bite of banana.

With love from Mama, Kecil and the Dog,
Dedicated to make you smile. Cheers!

yellows and greens...

We might have taken out the swimming pool again for some splash last Sunday, but since then, the weather had made a turn for the worse with plenty of sudden rain falls, thunder storms and generally gray, cloudy days.
Of course, it also means a lot of opportunity to break out our bits of yellows to play in the rain!

 

We dressed up the Little One, snatched the camera, took the ginormous umbrella (the expensive camera and Mama both need some protection from rain, you know!), and went running to chase some rain outside.

I don't know if you notice, but it seems to this Mama that the kind of rainy days that make Kecil's boat-launching possible often happens on the days when Kecil had decided to wear one of her long, beautiful dresses.
And of course, no boat-launching will be complete without getting down on the ground to release the boat, as well as a general splash around, causing the said dress to get completely drenched, if not muddy as well.
Still, I guess dresses are small price compared to the sheer joy of carefree days under the gentler forces of nature.

I don't have any recollection of me going out to play in the rain myself when I was smaller, but I do hope these days would be one of the many good memories of Kecil's childhood.
Now if Mama can only ensure that all these frolics do not result in any cold/flu/cough, things would be just peachy.
As it is, Kecil just developed a cough over the weekend, which she might have caught from her poor, overworked Daddy. So... we might try to keep ourselves from the rain for the time being.

Until next time, and here's to all kinds of enjoyable weather!

Then & Now

Then....

 Now ...

Zen, streamlined, boy-like, no frills clothing versus beautiful, girly, frilly dresses and pyjama.

The difference between buying out of necessity and buying out of... just a sense of fun, access to sales, cheap but nice clothing....

Thank you again for all the beautiful dresses! (and pyjamas. It's Tinkerbell, by the way)

fashionista

When it comes to the number of clothing owned in this house, this Mama thinks that Kecil would definitely win hands down.
That is despite not having so many numbers of years to accumulate the said clothing articles.
Still, I guess having so many relatives and friends so eager to dress up this Little One helps.
I don't think I have bought any article of clothing for ... months!
Except a few pairs of Minnie Mouse underwear some 2 months back.

The last visit by Tante Rina had come with its usual accompanying loot of clothing articles, which includes:

This beautiful orange Princess dress

A pair of Tinkerbell pyjamas

(which became an instant hit, needless to say)

A Girly white T-shirt (complete with a little girl and her cat illustration)

And of course, not to forget the fun pink pants at the beginning of the post!

We are definitely very grateful for all the gifts. I guess Kecil is also happy to know that she is a source of inspiration for many a shopping trips for many of her Tantes and grandparents.

And despite feeling overwhelmed at times, I guess the clothes couldn't have come at a better time as Kecil quickly outgrows her clothing.

Indeed, most of her new stuff are supposedly for 4-year olds and they FIT.

Not loose, no excess room. They FIT. Nicely, some can even be said to fit snugly. 

Ugh ogh.

Moral of the story?

This Mama does feed the kid. Haha!

Well... anyway, just to say it again, thank you for all the gifts.

We'll definitely try to document the rest which are not yet here for various reasons.

In the meantime, if you still feel like hunting more cute clothing, do go ahead.

Just remember to look for maybe a 5-year old size instead.

Happy Hunting!

Sunday ...

... was not quite really summer anymore.
But at the same time, there was no rain, the sun was shining, albeit sometimes hidden behind some clouds.
So when Kecil broke into the storage and found her deflated pool... Mama really did not have a good reason not to let her swim outside
Not to forget Mama's latest injury that definitely make swimming at the proper pool out of question (no water for the would for a couple more days)

So we went for Daddy and his trusty compressor (mainly used for painting using air-brush)
Managed to get the pool inflated in practically no time as compared to using the borrowed hand-pump the last time we used the pool
Rolled out some mat, filled up the pool, and we were good to go,
Mama watching and swatting the insects, Kecil frolicking in water

T'was a good Sunday.
We do hope that you had a good Sunday too!

Always a lovely sight...

Always make me feel like plopping down on the bed to follow her example.
How about you?

Obsession...

 
Back in the days when we just moved in here, we used to have one hell of a weather, in the form of continuous, non-stop rain and thunderstorms.
Indeed, it was said that the rainfall that year was something of a decade-high.
The point is that the house was cold then. And empty, with most of our stuff not yet around.
So to protect a certain crawling baby, Mama bought an alphabet jigsaw mat, supposedly for the said baby to play ON.
I guess the intention is good enough, even if the implementation was less than brilliant.

You see, instead of sitting ON the said 'carpet', she'd rather sit on the FLOOR and PLAY WITH the carpet!
It made generally a lot of mess everywhere with all the letters scattered everywhere around the house.
Until Tita got fed up and stuff everything into plastic bags and hid them in the cabinet.

The 'carpet' still get some attention from time to time, but especially recently, thanks partly to Daddy and her better motoric skills, we have different uses of the 'carpet'

Instead of boring, 2-D carpet, she (or Daddy or which ever adult currently in residence) made cool, 3-D blocks, or, as she name them... cupcake!

First you made the cubes, then you make any necessary modification, then you stack them to make whatever structure you want to build. Easy and fun, no?
Well... quite, until you become the adult being summoned from all ends of the house to 'help' along.

Still, it's always interesting to see what she come up with.

 Simple stackable structure, a hiding post?

Cupcakes?

Oh, and the best of all:

Baa!

Camera? Projector? Where did she ever see an old-fashioned camera anyway?
Still... absolutely brilliant!
Here's to more free form, child-like creativity!

A new friend

We recently acquired new neighbor a few houses down, who proceeded with erecting some fence around the backyard.
We found out the tentative reason just a few days earlier, when Kecil started hanging out at the fence after school.
Apparently she found a new friend....

... of the four-legged kind!

It's still early days yet. We have not even met the puppy's owner (Yes, she is still a puppy).
We do hope that we'll get to meet soon so that hopefully Kecil can really make the Puppy a friend.
In the meantime, as Mama kept reminding Kecil, she already HAS a big puppy at home, by the name of Penny. Ha!

In Skool

For various reasons, we like to do our school run early, just so Kecil have more time to settle down in school before proper class starts. It does mean that she has to wait for the rest of the students to arrive and class announced, but I think it's pretty well worth it.

Well, Kecil is not the only one who ended up waiting for classes to start. Most of the time, Mama is also held hostage (by Kecil) to stay around in the playroom and play with her until it's time for Kecil to go into her class.

Still, given more chance to watch Kecil antics (and, hopefully, the way she interacts with the rest of the Skool population), why not?

On a slightly a different note, I guess Kecil is getting very much used to her uniform. Mama's alterations seem to hold up pretty well so far. Oh, and Kecil's uniform was not the only which was altered by the Mamas.

I do hope you all enjoy seeing Kecil in her uniform in 'native' environment aka the Skool.
Until next time!